Tips of the Week - Information Technology

Technology Tip of the Week - March 28, 2006

Preparing Documents to Print from the Web

Have you ever tried to print a document from the web only to find that you'd lost the last few words at the end of every line? Don't you hate when that happens?? You can easily prevent this from happening to the documents that you are preparing for your website by using a simple single-cell table. Follow these quick steps the next time you are creating a document that will be printed from the web and you'll never lose a word.

Log in to FrontPage

Open a new page (File - New... Blank page)

From the menu bar click on Table - Insert - Table...

Set the table Size to 1 row and 1 column

Set the Border size to "0"

Now the most important part - set the table Width to 535 pixels

Click OK to apply the settings

Click inside this single-cell table and either type your document or insert an existing document (Insert - File..)

Save your document

That's it! Your document will now print perfectly on letter-size or A4 paper.

Note that if you want to try this on an existing document you can click in front of the first letter of the document and press the Enter key to give yourself a blank line. Click on the blank line and follow the steps detailed above to create the same single-cell table. Then simply drag over all your text to select it and either drag it up into the table cell, or cut the text and then paste it into the table. Remember to save your changes.

For more help with this feature, please contact one of the faculty mentors - Tony Basilico (abasilico@ccri.edu) or Luis Malaret (lmalaret@ccri.edu) or one of the IT Instructional Support team (Norm Grant, Gene Grande or Linda Beith).

Article of the Week

The Death of Handwriting by Stuart Jeffries for the The Guardian Unlimited - Tuesday, February 14, 2006

"We spend our working days tapping into computers. We communicate with each other via email rather than letter. And today, as chip and pin technology becomes compulsory on the high street, even our signatures have become obsolete. Could it really all be over for handwriting?"... Read the full report at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1709128,00.html

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These tips are provided by the Department of Information Technology instructional support team. If you have any questions on these tips, or wish to offer your own, please feel free to contact Linda Beith at lbeith@ccri.edu. View an archive of past technology tips at http://it.ccri.edu/Training/Tips/tip_week.shtml.